Sutton Waldron

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Sutton Waldron
Dorset

Sutton Waldron
Location
Grid reference: ST862158
Location: 50°56’33"N, 2°11’56"W
Data
Population: 200
Post town: Blandford Forum
Postcode: DT11
Dialling code: 01747
Local Government
Council: Dorset
Parliamentary
constituency:
North Dorset

Sutton Waldron is a village in northern Dorset, on the A350 road between Iwerne Minster and Fontmell Magna, in the Blackmore Vale under the scarp of Cranborne Chase, eight miles north of Blandford Forum and five miles south of Shaftesbury.

The 2011 census recorded that the parish had 93 dwellings, 87 households and a population of 200.

In 1086 in the Domesday Book Sutton Waldron is recorded as Sudtone;[1] it had 24 households, one mill, six ploughlands, six acres of meadow and forty acres of woodland, all in the county's Gillingham Hundred. The lord and tenant-in-chief was Waleran the hunter.[2]

The parish church dates from 1847 and is constructed in the Decorated Gothic style.[3]

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References

  1. "Dorset S-Z". The Domesday Book Online. domesdaybook.co.uk. http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/dorset3.html. Retrieved 20 February 2015. 
  2. "Place: Sutton [Waldron"]. Open Domesday. domesdaymap.co.uk. http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/ST8615/sutton-waldron/. Retrieved 20 February 2015. 
  3. North Dorset District Council (1982–83). North Dorset District Official Guide. Home Publishing Co. Ltd. p. 49.